By the time the seventh cavalry squad broke through the enemy formation, a third of the combatants on both sides of the original clash had already fallen, while the rest had dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground in surrender. There was simply no winning against two hundred Dao Foundation stage cultivators[1].

Having cleared the central battlefield, the three hundred cavalrymen reformed their ranks and advanced toward the convoy. The Zhao general responsible for guarding the delegation had already ordered his troops to form up around the boat-carriage. He then shouted, “We are the Zhao delegation, tasked with escorting the Princess of Ning on her diplomatic mission to Western Jin. Who are you to dare raid a royal princess?”

The cavalryman at the center of the group replied calmly, “We are the greatest horse bandits of the western regions: the Fifty Bandits of Heaven Fighting.”

The Zhao general looked at the three hundred masked...